[CW] calling with only one call sign....

[Donald Chester]

>From: Larry Kayser <kayser@sympatico.ca>

>I am just not interested in any more "599 tnx 73" QSO's.  Even the
>most basic and simple question is most often ignored, such as "rig?"
Larry said:

"...Frankly, I have been avoiding working most European stations that I do 
not
know, I am just not interested in any more "599 tnx 73" QSO's.� Even the
most basic and simple question is most often ignored, such as "rig?"� or
"ant ?"...


I totally agree.  Even if you are not interested in a ragchew, one of the 
fundamental exchanges in an amateur radio contact is to describe the antenna 
and rig, or at least approximate tx power.  Without even that basic info, to 
me the QSO is a total waste of time.

This is typical of almost all CW DX QSO's I have had in recent years.  About 
the only DX I attempt anymore is on 10M AM phone on 29.0-29.2.   I have had 
some nice, even hour-long chats with Europeans and Pacific stations there.  
I my younger days I spent considerable time abroad, and it is interesting to 
talk to people in regions of  the world where I  have lived or visited.

About the only kind of contact I attempt on CW is non-contest,  non-DX chats 
within a range of a few hundred miles.  Rubber-stamp QSO's are of no 
interest to me whatever.  The contest QSO's with univeral 599 reports have  
become downright ridiculous.

I suspect that this has, unfortunately, contributed to the widely discussed 
drop off in interest in CW in recent years.

Don K4KYV

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